The suite takes its name from the church of the same name, dedicated to the Madonna of Constantinople, which, as legend has it, had an image right where the current temple stands. Just outside the ancient path of the cardini and decumani, The road has some important monumental churches overlooking it.

The origin of the road's layout can be traced back to the time of the viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo, author of an important urban expansion plan of the Naples of the sixteenth century, the initial intention was to have the street flow into a gate that was then present, sp;the gate of Constantinople, demolished in 1852.

Today the street is full of antique shops and bookshops. Santa Maria di Costantinopoli is one of the streets in the historic center of Naples, which bears the name of the church of the same name. conventual on the corner of piazzetta Museo Nazionale1 (2).

It is traced straight from piazza Bellini, quartier San Lorenzo  and dies on a hilly spur on the site where the Cavallerizza Palace will first rise, transformed into the Royal Faculty of Studies and, then, finally, by Charles of Bourbon, reused as a Museum, the San Carlo all'A district sand.

In the ancient Neapolitan views, where the very idea of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli as a church is actually missing, p;true and proper connecting route as it is today, one observes from the National Museum side the hill termin are in a ravine tuff cliff above which have always dominated by the colossal buildings of Ch Church of the Mother of God in Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, the Colosimo in the Stella neighborhood and further down at the bottom of the valley a late seventeenth-century village known by the toponym of Cavaiole, anticipates the Borgo dei Vergini to the north.

The The portal of the Conca Palace, close to the excavation site on the Greco-Roman walls, was believed to be of Catalan origin.